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ἄντλος , ὁ, in Poll.1.92 also ἄντλον, τό:—in Hom.,
A.hold of a ship, Od.12.411, 15.479.
2. bilge-water, πόλις . . ἄντλον οὐκ ἐδέξατο let in no water, metaph. for 'let no enemy come in', A.Th.796; ἄντλον εἴργειν ναός pump out water from a ship, E.Tr.691; εἰς ἄντλον ἐμβαίνειν πόδα, metaph. for getting into a difficulty, Id.Heracl.168.
3. a flood of water, Pi.O.9.53; “ἀλίμενον ὥς τις εἰς ἄντλον πεσών” E.Hec. 1025 (lyr.); ἐν ἄντλῳ τιθέναι scuttle, sink, metaph., “ὕβριν” Pi.P.8.12.
II. bucket, Man.6.424.
III. heap of corn, threshed but not yet cleansed, Nic.Th.114,546, Q.S.1.352, AP6.258 (Adaeus).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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